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La Crosse Police Get Surplus MRAP

Monday, 16 June 2014 10:11 | | |

La Crosse soon will have 20 tons of mine resistant
vehicle rolling through
the streets. Police have recently become one of 23
jurisdictions in the state to collect a Caiman Mine Resistant Ambush
Protected vehicle as surplus from the federal government. Police
say the M-RAP will be used with the department's emergency response team and
could protect someone from an active shooter or rescue people from a flood
because it can go through three feet of water. M-RAP's originally cost the
feds over seven hundred thousand dollars but La Crosse essentially got it for
free. It comes in desert tan. But La Crosse police apparently plan
on slapping a coat of paint on it.